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Hip Hop Shakespeare

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You'll all know we have the Olympics coming up in London but ahead of that the Cultural Olympiad is already underway with performers from all over the world talking part. One element is the World Shakespeare Festival, celebrating the playwright's life and works nearly 450 years after he was born. All 37 Shakespeare plays are being performed in 37 languages - and there's a very urban take on 'Othello' thanks to two Chicago rappers and actors. GQ and JAQ, who are brothers, joined Impact's Mishal Husain to talk about how they managed to make hip hop work with one of the most infamous works of William Shakespeare. And just to top it all off they performed a part of their act.

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